1 Corinthians 5

Immoral Church Members

¹It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles — a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.²³And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief and remove from your congregation the one who did this?⁴⁵Even though I am absent in the body, I am present in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who has been doing such a thing.⁶⁷When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus, and I am with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,⁸⁹hand that one over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.¹⁰

¹¹Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough?¹²¹³Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new unleavened batch, as indeed you are. For Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.¹⁴¹⁵Therefore, let us observe the feast, not with old leaven or with the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.¹⁶

Church Discipline

¹⁷I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.¹⁸¹⁹I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.²⁰²¹But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.²²²³For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Don’t you judge those who are inside?²⁴²⁵God judges outsiders. Remove the evil person from among you.²⁶